Amazon EBS, SSD, and Rackspace IOPS Per Dollar
Staying on the subject of IOPS in the cloud, Jeff Darcy did some testing with GlusterFS against Amazon EBS, Amazon SSD, Storm on Demand SS, and Rackspace instance storage and computed for each IOPS/$:
- Amazon EBS: 1000 IOPS (provisioned) for $225/month or 4.4 IOPS/$ (server not included)
- Amazon SSD: 4300 IOPS for $4464/month or 1.0 IOPS/month (that’s pathetic)
- Storm on Demand SSD: 5500 IOPS for $590/month or 9.3 IOPS/$
- Rackspace instance storage: 3400 IOPS for $692/month (8GB instances) or 4.9 IOPS/$
- Rackspace with 4x block storage per server: 9600 IOPS for $811/month or 11.8 IOPS/$ (hypothetical, assuming CPU or network don’t become bottlenecks)
Original title and link: Amazon EBS, SSD, and Rackspace IOPS Per Dollar (©myNoSQL)
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